Star Wars: Darth Vader Volume 3 The Shu-Torun War Review

Star Wars fans since yesterday's comic book review went down so well i'm going to treat you all to another and at the same time pretend that I didn't have this one planned at all nope not at all so here is my totally unplanned review of Star Wars: Darth Vader Volume 3 The Shu-Torun War.

The plot of this book is there is a rebellion growing on the planet Shu-Torun and so the emperor sends in Darth Vader to help crush this rebellion before it gets going. Honestly it's hard for me to give my thoughts on the story as a whole because for me it's a very mixed bag alot of the story does make sense but why would the empire be concerned with what's going on on a small planet? to me that doesn't make sense.

Now unlike the last Star Wars comic there was no blonde moments going on so maybe I can now start regain some of that Star Wars street cred back. If the last book was a spy movie then this one for me at least is an action movie since there's a lot of huge set pieces going on here and they don't take away from what's going on in the main story at all.

I would now like to take the time to address some things that I mentioned in my last Star Wars comics review I got comments from people saying that Aphra was an archaeologist and not a thief well in that book she was called a thief and since that was my only reference point at that time I had no choice but to refer to her as a thief and since they didn't mention that in the book I therefor had to assume that she was a smuggler.

Now then before I get onto gushing about the artwork again because trust me that's what i'll be doing I first have to mention so really bad artwork from artist Leinil Yu because yeah it's pretty freaking bad heck the artwork in the annual is so bad that in one panel they don't even draw on faces and yes the panel in question is in the above picture it's a mistake that I wouldn't mind so much if the characters weren't meant to have faces but in the panel you can see them with faces.

If you've seen my last review then you'll know who does the artwork for this Darth Vader series and you'll also know that I was worried that the quality would drop in this book well i'm glad to say that the quality of the artwork outside of the annual was actually really good if Salvador Larroca wanted to draw for the mainstream Marvel universe then i'd be on board with that because the guy has alot of talent and it deserves to be seen by a much wider audience.

Staying onto write the book was writer Kieron Gillen and as like the previous book his writing for Vader is the best i've seen since the original trilogy I will admit that in this book we don't get an idea as to what Vader is thinking and that did kind of disappoint me a little since I loved that aspect of the previous book but in this one we get to see him more as a tactician and since this is a basically a war story that makes sense but at the same time it made me want to see the more maniacal Vader that was presented to us in the last volume.

One thing that I forgot to mention in my last review was the fact that I when I read every line of Vader's all I could hear was the great James Earl Jones's voice and I think that goes to show you how awesome both JEJ and Vader are because now they are pretty much one in the same.

I made it quite clear that my favorite character in the last book was Aphra well in this book it's Triple Zero who is basically C3PO if he had the mind of a serial killer and I honestly loved that about him he's not afraid to get his hands dirty and his interactions with BeeTee also make for some great dark comedy moments in the story.

Overall this is a great book but I prefer volume 2 since that book helped make Vader a more rounded character this one is still a fun read tho and so it scores a 7.5 out of 10 from me.